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I’ve still not got an iPhone (yes, I know, I can hear the howls of derision from the rest of the digital arts community), so for all you iPhone users out there, I just wanted to share with you a couple of blog posts from one of Manchester’s Twitterati, Tim Difford. A first adopter of the first order, Tim tries out iPhone Apps so that you don’t have to…
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THURSDAY 22 – SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER 2009
May You Live in Interesting Times is a three-day, biennial Festival that is all about ‘do-it-yourself’ and features a programme that celebrates the latest intriguing uses of everyday technology and social innovation, enabled through shared ideas.
There’s a fantastic range of commissions, exhibitions, a Maker Faire, discussions, workshops, screenings and participant-driven events. Highlights include:
Alfred Sirleaf: Analogue Blogger, from Liberia; Eddo Stern’s first solo exhibition in the UK; Ghana Think Tank solving Wales’ problems; a dynamic, participant driven game show featuring The People Speak; an unConference that explores Technological Tinkering, Wales’ first Maker Faire and a range of new commissions from artists based in Wales.
Charles Leadbeater, ideas generator and strategic advisor and author of ‘We Think’ was a guest speaker at Shift Happens 2.0. Charles shares his perspective for organisations looking to get digital. www.wethinkthebook.net / www.charlesleadbeater.net
Speaking to Ian Aspin and Erin Maguire at Shift Happens 2.0, the partner event to AmbITion Roadshow Yorkshire, in June 2009.
Andy Hobsbawm from Do The Green Thing talks about opportunities for arts organisations to frame behaviour change for sustainability.
Speaking to Ian Aspin and filmed by Erin Maguire at Shift Happens 2.0, the partner event to AmbITion Roadshow Yorkshire, in June 2009.
Marcia Hutchinson is Director of Primary Colours, a publishing and learning company specialising in diversity. Marcia attended both the AmbITion Roadshow Yorkshire and Shift Happens 2.0. Here are her observations of both events, plus some helpful hints!
Speaking to Ian Aspin and filmed by Erin Maguire at Shift Happens 2.0, the partner event to AmbITion Roadshow Yorkshire, in June 2009.
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